David Plankton
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Here's a good article:
Interesting article
It's about UK TV horror movie seasons of the 1970s and 80s. Yes, very specific, and it does get quite technical, but stick with it for the conclusions about the camaraderie and sense of occasion for everyone tuning in for a late night horror to be discussed later in the playground/workplace. Something the author argues has been lost now when everything is available instantly (supposedly).
Though I'd say we still have to seek things out, it's more the other way around, and we use the internet to hear about stuff which we then track down, instead of seeing something and that's it, gone till its next broadcast (if at all).
Well that was interesting, I was only aware of the BBC2 double bills and never knew ITV had been doing them for years beforehand. I remember buying the Radio Times pictured at link with Night of the Demon on the cover and the 1980 season was the one that meant the most to me.
I was watching horrors on TV earlier than that and by checking the listings on wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horror_Double_Bills#1976_Masters_of_Terror
I can tell that I must have seen Karloff in The Mummy in July '77 because I wrote about it at school the following Monday. I was six at the time and my teacher seemed a bit concerned.*
And who else watched Them followed by The Incredible Shrinking Man on Saturday, 12 August 1978? Oh, what a night!
*the same teacher who also thought, by one of my drawings, that I'd bought a real live preying mantis when in fact it was a diorama-style model of a giant one terrorising a city street. Duh, it's crushing a taxi Miss.